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Would be nice if in the admin interface there were accesskey's for the various save buttons and such. So that people could use 'alt-s' instead of clicking save every time. Not a huge deal, but would be a minor improvement that can really help when people are doing massive data entry.

I'm not sure about this; accesskeys are a good idea in theory, but in actual practice they leave a lot to be desired. The attached patch, for example, includes an access key (the 'a' binding for 'save and add another') which conflicts with keyboard shortcuts in one browser (IE) and two screen readers (JAWS and IBM Home Page Reader).

Adrian - I'm convinced the concerns about accesskeys have changed since 8/31/2006. For example, they don't interfere with firefox now. One has to hold shift+alt+"accesskey" in order to use accesskey functionality. This conflict with internal browser functionality was the only concern raised in the link ubernostrum posted on 8/24/06 (​http://www.wats.ca/show.php?contentid=43).

Given the ready availability of accesskeys in wikipedia, google apps -- I think they're here to stay. This is an solid patch. I've tested it on my local install. Cheers!

I had this same thought about keyboard shortcuts for the Admin and did a search before filing a new ticket. I'd like to see this as a lot of our users are doing data entry and this would help greatly. (That said, now that I have the patch file I can easily patch our install.)

I also agree that access keys should be up to the browser to handle better.